Excerpt from History of the Eighteenth Regiment of Cavalry: Pennsylvania Volunteers (163d Regiment of the Line), 1862-1865 In 1901 the Executive Committee of the Regimental Association authorized the formation of a Publication Committee whose duty it should be to take up and finish the work so nearly completed by Comrade Grier. This the Committee has done to the best of its ability. The Publication Fund has never been large enough to defray the cost of a volume worthy of the Regiment. With the aid, however, of the State Commission created to encourage the publication of Regimental histories, the Committee is at last enabled to print this book in suit able form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.